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by mruts 7y ago
I seem to be an alcoholic, I guess? I dunno, I now drink like maybe 80oz of beer a night? Is this a problem? I'm not sure. I don't know if it's affecting me in anyway (I'm primarily concerned about my brain). I never fee
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Doctors prescribed them, so who cares? I personally think we should just be able to buy any drug we want at a convenience store, but what do I know?
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Is there support for in line images and LaTeX? I haven’t tried org-web but this looks seriously awesome! Good work!
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by mruts 7y ago
It does not follow that given a concept of a hat, you recognize one. It’s like the difference between epistemology and phenomenology.
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, is deep learning AI? Is word2vec AI? I would say yes, but I guess some would say no. But it doesn’t really matter because no one has a good definition of AI. Perhaps the best one would be passing the Turing test, but that has proble
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It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy theory to censor information and manipulate public discourse. Hmmm... The current centralized structure of the web is broken. Any person who believes in classical liberalism should find this disgusting.
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I find that I can reason about code more effectively the shorter the variable names are. Rob Pike writes the same thing in the Practice of Programming.
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I've always felt that formal logic has been more useful to programming than math has for me.
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I've met very few rational and healthy people in my entire life. Everyone has some problem, and everyone can be pushed to do seemingly crazy things. By your definition, literally the entire human race is mentally ill. And if that is th
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve always thought that you don’t really understand a problem until you have a solution to it. What I like to do is first write a naive solution to a problem so I can understand it better. Then I throw away the code and start again. I inva
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve always been in the weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis camp that your tools of expression influence and (sometimes) define your thoughts. A great example is the idea of matrices in math. Matrices don’t allow you to represent anything that a sy
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by mruts 7y ago
Amazon in the second most admired company (behind Apple) according to forbes[1]. So I think it's safe to say that almost everyone disagrees with you. [1] https://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/
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And you're not?
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Thanks a lot for posting this. I think it’s the most profound thing I’ve come across today!
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So could you ask the clerk to produce every piece of information he has? Would he be obligated to give it to you?
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean it wouldn’t be right to publish a list of all the people with AIDS, right? That could have some implications for the public but it still probably shouldn’t be available.
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I could be wrong but maybe one is recursively enumerable and the other is not? i.e at a clerk you need to know what you’re looking for in contrast to a list of records that you can just look through.
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by mruts 7y ago
Yeah seems a little baroque. Though if there’s anything I’ve learned is that whenever you see an overly-complicated solution to a seemingly simple problem, you probably just don’t understand the problem. Though, like you said, sometimes the
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by mruts 7y ago
Once you become familiar with monads and their operations, it becomes second nature. Going back from monadic operations to imperative code after tasting the forbidden fruit is awful. In someways functional programming has kind of ruined me
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Okay... then lay it on us? If there’s a strong moral argument maybe you should tell us.
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Because of social norms? I don't need to pay for a candy bar if I eat it, but I do, because that's just what I do. There's so much trust in almost every society that what you're talking about just doesn't happen v
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by mruts 7y ago
That’s exactly how restaurants work. What’s different about stores? As an aside, I eat things at stores all the time. Grocery stores, convenience store, whatever. No one has ever said anything to me and no one cares. Also I drink all the ti
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by mruts 7y ago
A little off topic but interesting point: In America restaurants must take cash but stores don’t. This is because once you’ve eaten you now owe a debt and cash must be accepted as payment for debts, as required by law. But if you are buying
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by mruts 7y ago
As a person who actually lives in a 3rd world country and grew up in America, what you’re saying could not be more false. Even the poorest Americans live a life here that would be considered one of great luxury. We’re talking about living
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You can use MTurk on phones I assume? Even very poor people often have smartphones and data where I am living (Tanzania).
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I like the idea of having the market decide what is fair, instead of some Stanford website.
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He probably can but MTurk is superior because of liquidity and flexibility. There are very few jobs in which value is created and paid for in a span of a minute. By turning dead time into money, generating money in a way you could not for o
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Calculus means "stone" in Latin. I suspect the relationship between stones and counting is why we use it so much (though I'm not an expert on how/why Romans used stones).
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I have one for my work account. Whenever I have to update it I just overwrite the macro. I figure if it gets compromised they won't think it's my fault and I won't face any consequences :p
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You’re saying it’s Indians that are doing the majority (>%50) of cutting edge research? That’s just not true, even in the slightest.

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